Sangoma Zoleka Zekani said a “shaking and shivering” Sizwezakhe Vumazonke (alleged triggerman) came to see her on the morning of April 21 last year. She said Vumazonke asked her to “wash” him but she refused on the basis of what he had told her.

The dramatic details of Vumazonke’s arrest were revealed for the first time, with a policeman explaining how he hit his head on the door of a police van when he tried to resist. This apparently resulted in a swollen eye.

While Vumazonke was arrested at 1.30am on May 3 last year, he was first taken to Despatch and only booked in at the Kabega Park police station some four hours later.

Price said Burger was not being truthful because she was scared of getting into trouble with the bank, and that she had in fact helped Panayiotou to track his wife’s account “out of the goodness of her heart”.